STIndex: A Context-Aware Multi-Dimensional Spatiotemporal Information Extraction System
Organizations: The University of Western Australia Perth, Australia · Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Murdoch University Perth, Australia
Abstract
Extracting structured knowledge from unstructured data still faces practical limitations: entity and event extraction pipelines remain brittle, knowledge graph construction requires costly ontology engineering, and cross-domain generalization is rarely production-ready. In contrast, space and time provide universal contextual anchors that naturally align heterogeneous information and benefit downstream tasks such as retrieval and reasoning. We introduce STIndex, an end-to-end system that structures unstructured content into a multidimensional spatiotemporal data warehouse. Users define domain-specific analysis dimensions with configurable hierarchies, while large language models perform context-aware extraction and grounding. STIndex integrates document-level memory, geocoding correction, and quality validation, and offers an interactive analytics dashboard for visualization, clustering, burst detection, and entity network analysis. In evaluation on a public health benchmark, STIndex improves spatiotemporal entity extraction F1 by 4.37% (GPT-4o-mini) and 3.60% (Qwen3-8B). A live demonstration and open-source code are available at https://stindex.ai4wa.com/dashboard.
Figures & tables
| Model | Mode | T-P | T-R | T-F1 | Comb-F1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-4o-mini ( OpenAI, 2024 ) | Baseline | 67.83 | 65.44 | 66.61 | 70.72 |
| STIndex | 71.05 | 68.32 | 69.66 | 73.81 | |
| Improvement | +3.22 | +2.88 | +3.05 | +4.37% | |
| Qwen3-8B ( Team, 2025 ) | Baseline | 59.80 | 56.82 | 58.27 | 69.81 |
| STIndex | 67.84 | 65.22 | 66.50 | 72.32 | |
| Improvement | +8.04 | +8.40 | +8.23 | +3.60% |
Document Information Extraction
Document Information Extraction turns text, tables, forms, and images into structured, searchable data.
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